48 weeks week 2 fingerpainting

I don't remember fingerpainting to be so challenging. I was just probably less discriminating! again all new materials to me... I did really like the Golden Fluorescent paints.

48 weeks week 1

First week of Donna Downey's art class, challenging and enjoyable. Many new materials and methods for me. I'm looking forward to the rest of the year.

Distressed Mouse Trap memo clips.

I saw these on a blog, but couldn't find them again to give credit, but thank you for the inspiration. These a standard old mouse traps from the dollar store, colored with Tim Holtz Distress ink and embellished with a bunch of Ideology. They are cute little note holders.

Scary Configurations, using Distress Inks!

I completed my first holiday configurations, just in time for Halloween.  I used a ton of Tim Holtz ideology, paper and Distress ink, Vintage Photo, Tea Dye and Corduroy.  This was a blast of fun to put together, I want to make one for each holiday. I have started collecting items for a Christmas version. In the second picture you can see that I was even able to add some battery operated led lights to the spookafiy the scene appropriately. I am submitting this to the Ranger give-away for the seasonal distress pads, stop by and take a look at all the beautiful entries.

Why resist? CCC2

Week 19 of Tim Holtz's CCC2 over at Linda's Studio L3, I couldn't resist.  So here's my tag incorporating one of my favorite things, travel! I used Tim's summer distress inks, they came out much darker on the resist craft paper, but son't show up so much in the photo.  I also used the filmstrip ribbon, adage ticket and plane stamp.  I plan to catch up on some of the previous challenges that I've missed, so check back and let me know what you think.

Core-dinations Compendium of Curiosities 2 Challenge 17

Sponsored by Simon Says Stamp, Week 17 wow! You'd think I could spell curiosities without spell checker by now! This week I combined the enameled tag that I didn't get finished last week and the coredinations paper. I love this paper, it's has so much potential and is so fun. I used Tim's texture fades, flourish and polka dots, on both the metal tag, aqua dabber, and the dress form, with one of my favorite color combos, blue and brown. Check out the other beauties over at Linda's Studio L3... Enjoy.

Compendium of Curiosities 2 Configurations

 Compendium of Curiosities configurations challenge, that's a tongue twister! Thanks to Linda's hint that this was coming, I started working on the base that week. I'm so glad because I will be out of town and would not have been able to participate and have such a blast doing this. I've had the configurable for a while and was planning on doing some holiday scene's but never got to it. So for this my general theme was travel. I added the pocket watch from the challenge a few weeks ago, because I wanted to give it a special place anyway and this seemed to work.  I have at least a zillion ideology trinkets and some other prized pieces I'd been saving for the right project all glued in every which way.

 Click over to Linda's Studio L3, so glad she's hosting another great challenge. And check out Tim's second book for the instructions, I also watched his video on his blog, on making one of these super fun projects. Enjoy and have a beautiful holiday!